Brandom summarizing Wittgenstein: ‘Meaning’ is a theoretical object-kind, postulated to codify proprieties of practice
it is no truer that: - “atoms are what they are because we use ‘atom’ as we do” - than that “we use ‘atom’ as we do because atoms are as they are.” - Both of these claims, the antirepresentationlist says, are entirely empty. - Both are pseudo-explanations. - It is particularly important that the antirepresentationalist insist that the latter claim is a pseudo-explanation.